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waider ([personal profile] waider) wrote2004-06-24 03:07 pm

yahoo = teh suck

So yahoo have broken third-party interop with their messaging network again. My sole reason for getting a yahoo account was because someone organised a party using yahoo's mailing list doohickey, and I've only hung around because my mother uses yahoo as her IM client. Now I can't connect to it unless I use their official client, which - on unix - is a piece of suck anyway - and really I'm wondering what the point is. It's certainly got nothing to do with spammers, and everything to do with forcing people into their market, people like me who have contacts using yahoo.

And if that wasn't enough, tell me why it is that Yahoo's TV listings for my area are starting at 8pm? It knows what timezone I'm in, after all. Would it be too much to ask that they give current listings?

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